Reverend Blaxton, among other claims to fame, planted the first seeds that would fuel a pioneering nation and give apples an image of all-American wholesomeness. A bookish and eccentric loner ...

The two volumes have been prepared for the purpose of telling the story of the American Colonies in a manner that would meet the requirements of the general reader rather than those of the special ...

Reduce the much-hated taxes on tea in the colonies, which would increase tea sales and funnel revenue to the East India Company. The lower prices would make it easier for American colonists to ...

The conflict between Great Britain and her 13 American colonies had been brewing for some time. Americans viewed themselves as British citizens, and therefore entitled to all the rights that ...

It was not a straightforward task for these disparate entities to come together to resist efforts by the British Parliament to impose greater control over its North American colonies in the 18th ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back ...

The American Revolutionary War was a struggle for independence by the American colonies against their British rulers. What started with grievances over taxes and lack of representation ...

British monarch George III inherited the throne in 1760—just in time to oversee rising tensions with the American colonies lead to a revolution that reshaped his empire and the world.

He chartered the Virginia Company, which in 1607 established the first permanent English settlement in the American colonies. Jamestown, Virginia, is named in his honor. The King James Bible was ...

But joining them were black people who had escaped from American slavery during the Revolution ... to the warrior who had helped liberate the colonies without liberating his own human property.

Before the 1760s, American colonists rarely used cartoons to express political opinions. However, as the desire for independence grew in the colonies, cartooning became a popular medium for political ...